English Grammar Test Sentence Structure

Question 1

What is a complex sentence?

Accepted Answer

A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause

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A very long sentence

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A sentence with difficult vocabulary

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A sentence with two independent clauses

Question 2

What is a sentence fragment?

Accepted Answer

An incomplete sentence that is missing a subject, verb, or complete thought

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A complete sentence

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A very short sentence

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A sentence with errors

Question 3

What is a compound-complex sentence?

Accepted Answer

A sentence with at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause

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A sentence with only simple words

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A sentence with one clause

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A sentence with no conjunctions

Question 4

What is the subject of the sentence: 'The old man and his dog walked slowly'?

Accepted Answer

The old man and his dog

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walked

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slowly

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dog

Question 5

What is a dependent clause?

Accepted Answer

A clause that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and depends on an independent clause

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A clause that can stand alone

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Any clause with a verb

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A clause at the beginning of a sentence

Question 6

What is the predicate of a sentence?

Accepted Answer

The part of the sentence that contains the verb and tells what the subject does or is

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The subject

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The first word

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The last word